Decathlon Case Study - Europe E-commerce Logistics Upgrade

 

About Customer

Founded in France in 1976, Decathlon is a professional sports goods retailer specializing in the mass sports market, integrating the entire production chain of sports product design, R&D, production, branding, logistics, and retail. With over 1500 stores in 49 countries, it is the largest sporting goods retailer in the world.

The challenge

New customer expectations for e-commerce – higher volumes of orders and returns, same- and next-day delivery, and nearly perfect accuracy – have brought

new challenges for retailers and a need to address logistics bottlenecks. With 1045 stores in 25 European countries, Decathlon requires a highly flexible and fast supply chain and has turned to Geek+’s goods-to-person solutions to optimize its B2C logistics.


Our Solution

Geek+ tailor-made new robotics solutions for three distribution centers located in Castelnau, France,

Łódź, Poland, and Campania, Italy, use hundreds of P-series picking robots. Unlike traditional infrastructure, the AMR systems allow for flexible maintenance and modification without any interruption of service.

(2) Geek+ a transformé les entrepôts chez Décathlon dans de multiples sites en Europe - YouTube (1)-1

The Geek+ impact

  • Expansion of the online customer base across EU

  • Increase storage capacity by up to 30%

  • Increase picking efficiency: 250 order lines per hour per station

  • Increase putaway efficiency: 339 articles per hour per station

  • 3x efficiency vs. manual operations

(2) Geek+ a transformé les entrepôts chez Décathlon dans de multiples sites en Europe - YouTube-1